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Stand sentinel   /stænd sˈɛntənəl/   Listen
Stand sentinel

verb
1.
Watch over so as to protect.  Synonyms: keep guard, stand guard, stand watch.  "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen"






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"Stand sentinel" Quotes from Famous Books



... the summit by the chateau standing like their protector to face and defy the world. To the right, dominating the whole of this region, is the great double peak, snow-clad and often cloud-bound, which seems to stand sentinel for the surrounding mountains as the castle does to the valley; God's work and the work of man. He who first built his castle there knew well that in might lay right, and chose his place accordingly. Now houses stretch down ...
— The Light That Lures • Percy Brebner



Words linked to "Stand sentinel" :   stand watch, guard, stand guard, keep guard



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